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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2001
Timothy Arthur Deutsch, Newton, IA (US);
Virgil Dean Haverdink, Ankeny, IA (US);
Maurice Vincent Salz, Ankeny, IA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
Cotton receiving structure includes a receptacle supported on a wheeled frame and a floor conveyor moving cotton towards an upright set of fingered rotors which feed the cotton into an upright hopper. The fed cotton is directed into a baler mounted on the frame for forming and wrapping. The compact wrapped bale is discharged from the baler and loaded onto a transport device using conventional bale handling equipment such as a tractor-mounted loader. The baler can be mounted directly on the frame with the receptacle and the hopper for movement as a unit to the desired field location for receiving cotton from the harvester basket. In an alternate embodiment, the baler can be a separate unit towed behind or towed independently of the frame and the receiver and hopper.